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Topic: Facecloths in hotels, etc. (Read 12566 times)

I posted some travel tips on Take a Coffee Break- DD Trip to France. One of the tips was that many European hotels consider facecloths "personal items" and don't provide them- you are expected to bring your own. (This is changing quite rapidly, I think, especially if you are a higher-end traveller likely to be visiting from North America, but is certainly still the case for many budget places, where I tend to end up.)

I recently returned from Peru and Bolivia, and I can attest that nary a facecloth was seen (which I hadn't anticipated, sigh).

Facecloths in hotels, B & Bs, etc. in Canada and the USA are standard/expected. Is this really so unusual? What's the expectation in other places around the world? BYO or supplied as a matter of course?

(PS- my tip for Europe - and now I guess Peru & Bolivia - was to bring a couple of dollar store facecloths and some zip-lock bags to keep the damp ones in, and just discard them after a couple of days.)

We have stayed at hotels in England, Scotland, Italy and Spain the only place where face cloths (flannels) were not provided was the Novotel in Southampton. Thank the deity there was a nice, big Boots just across the road.

Is a face cloth different from a small towel? I'm picturing the small towels you might use after washing your face, but someone called them flannels which made me think they might be a different item. The ones I'm picturing are terrycloth.

If you go to the large American chain hotels, you may find a face cloth. Otherwise, don't count on it as we just don't use them.

Really? What do you use instead?

The hand towel is used if you are washing your face at the sink, the bath towel after a bath.

This is what I do too--I was thinking maybe a hand towel is called a facecloth in other locations? Don't know.

The explanation I was told is that a face cloth or wash cloth is used to wash the face (duh!) - you wet it, squirt the face wash on it and use to spread the suds on the face. Rinse it, use it to remove most of the suds, splash water on face to remove any last bits of face wash.

I wet my face, squirt facial wash on my hands, rub them together to make suds, spread suds on face. Rinse off with cupped hands.

If you go to the large American chain hotels, you may find a face cloth. Otherwise, don't count on it as we just don't use them.

Really? What do you use instead?

The hand towel is used if you are washing your face at the sink, the bath towel after a bath.

This is what I do too--I was thinking maybe a hand towel is called a facecloth in other locations? Don't know.

The explanation I was told is that a face cloth or wash cloth is used to wash the dace (duh!) - you wet it, squirt the face wash on it and use to spread the suds on the face. Rinse it, use it to remove most of the suds, splash water on face to remove any last bits of face wash.

I wet my face, squirt facial wash on my hands, rub them together to make suds, spread suds on face. Rinse off with cupped hands.